![]() The good news is that only two of those seasons are post-expansion, and something tells me Cole will have better fortunes than Rick Rhoden, who followed up a season-opening shutout of the Twins in 1988 by getting pummeled for 17 runs (13 earned) over 7.1 innings his next two times out. The bad news is that they subsequently missed the playoffs in seven of those 16 previous season. ![]() What about yesterday’s pitching performance? Any meaning to be gleaned from Gerrit Cole’s 11 strikeouts, or the combined shutout he engineered in combination with Wandy Peralta, Jonathan Loáisiga, and Ron Marinaccio? Maybe! Thursday was the 17th time in these 120-odd years that the Yankees have held their opponents scoreless on Opening Day. There are jokes to be made about the Baltimore lineup that dinged up the future Hall-of-Famer, but I’m not going to make them here: Baseball Reference Granted, it wasn’t necessary for the last one - CC Sabathia got lit up for six runs in his first start as a Yankee in Camden Yards to start the 2009 campaign. Still, in terms of winning the World Series, there might be something to be said for taking home a dub on Opening Day: 18 of the 27 title seasons began with a W. Of course, that team famously lost four of five to start things off before finishing 113-44. The Yankees have far more than 68 winning seasons since 1903 for every one of those losses that turned into a disappointment, another turned into a typical winner.Īfter all, the best team in that long history - 1998’s 114-win behemoth - started their road to a World Series with a loss, when Andy Pettitte was victimized for nine hits and four runs over six innings against an excellent Remember Some Guys lineup from the Anaheim Angels: Baseball Reference The answer to the question in the title, of course, is that it does not, in any way that winning any of the subsequent 161 games matters. ![]() ![]() Their all-around solid 5-0 shoutout of the San Francisco Giants to open the 2023 season moves them to 68-52 all-time in their first game of the season, dating back to a 3-1 loss at the hands of the Washington Senators on April 22, 1903. ![]()
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